Wardrobe-hook



(No Model.)

B. HAYDEN."

WARDROBE HOOK. No. 252,940. Patented Jan. 31,1882.

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' NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RANDOLPH HAYDEN, OF HADDAM, CONNECTICUT.

WARDROBE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,940, dated January 31, 1882.

' Application filed December 14, 1881. (No model.)

are adapted to be put into closets or ward robes for the purpose of hanging clothes and other articles.

The object of my invention is to provide a hook which can be readily and strongly attached with screws, asis the case with metallic hook and have a wooden pin upon whch the clothes or other articles are hung, so that they shall not become damaged from. the rust of the metal, as is ordinarily the case. Myinvention also provides for the strong attachment of the wood in the metal socket without the use of wedges, so that they cannot become separated or loosened.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating.

my-invention. Figure l is a side view of my improved wardrobe hook. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the same. Fig. 3 is a front view of the metallic socket detached.

A is a metallic socket for holding the wooden pin B. It is provided with a flat plate or flange, A, which is pierced with screw-holes C for attaching it to the wall or inside of a wardrobe. The socket in which the pin isinserted inclines upward, and has an opening, D E, through it, which isof larger diameter at the rear end, D, than at the forward end, E. At the forwhich prevents it from entering farther than this into the socket.

In putting the parts together the pin is placed against the forward end of the socket A, and then forced with great pressure by. means of any convenient mechanism into the opening. Thiscompresses thewoodasitpasses in and maintains it in a compressed state at the forward end, while the rear end expands immediately and fills the rear end of the socket A. This holds the pin in without the use of wedges or any other customary device, and gives the pin a tendency to work inward rather than outward, which is counteracted by the shoulder F. This shoulder F is intended to be of the same diameter as the forward end of the socket A, so that the whole shall present a smooth surface.

What I claim as my invention is- A wardrobe hook com posed of the up wardlyinclined socket A, provided with the conical opening D E, and the wooden pin B, provided w ith the straight tenon, larger than the socket on the shoulder F, the tenon being forced or driven into the conical opcning'of the socket,

' substantially as specified.

RANDOLPH HAYDEN. Witnesses:

EDWIN F. DIMOCK, THEO. G. ELLIs. 

